Growth hormone
The hormone is a protein hormone. It is responsible for stimulating the growth of the body, producing cells, developing them, and stimulating their reproduction. This hormone is classified as an amino acid. It is included in the single polypeptide chain. It is produced and stored, and then the cells of the body on either side Anterior pituitary gland secretion.
Growth hormone in the human body is called growth hormone 1, which contains a protein consisting of one hundred and ninety-one amino acid, and the growth hormone 2 consists of chromosome 17.
Growth hormone function
- Growth hormone helps to increase the length of the human during the childhood and adolescence.
- Amplifies muscle values, resulting in a significant increase in muscle mass.
- Stimulates the body to retain the calcium element, and increases the ability of the bone to mineralize and strengthen it.
- Increases the level of protein production.
- Increases and stimulates fat cracking.
- Equivalent to pancreatic functions.
- Reduces the amount of glucose absorbed from the liver.
- Contributes to the process of maintaining balance.
- Promotes the growth of internal organs of the human body except the brain.
- Energizes the immune system.
- Stimulates the development and production of sugar in the liver.
Growth hormone deficiency
Growth hormone deficiency is classified as a condition in the pituitary gland. It fails to function in the secretion of growth hormone. The amount of somatrophin in the body decreases. The body needs more of this growth hormone, which plays a crucial role in stimulating cells to divide and grow.
The symptoms of growth hormone deficiency that appear on the patient, and shows the lack of blood sugar levels in the patient and the small size of the penis in newborns, but in adults it is called failure failed to thrive, and the effect of memory loss, depression, Lack of endurance, difficulty digestion and other symptoms.
The disease is called the lack of growth hormone caused by the lack of other hormones pituitary deficiency, and deficiency is the result of lack of one of these hormones:
- Adrenal cortex (ACTH- Corticotrophin).
- Thyriod stimulating hormone (TSH).
- Hormonalized hormone (LH).
- Hormone-stimulating hormone (FSH- Folicle- Stimulating hormone).
- Obrolactin.
Symptoms
- Delay the growth of children.
- Significant reduction in muscle mass.
- Decreased performance of the heart muscle.
- Feeling general tired.
- Feeling early aging.
- Lack of energy in the body.
the reasons
- Lack of additional hormones may lead to death.
- Central nervous system injury.
- Infection.
Diagnosis
The doctor asks the person with the growth hormone deficiency to take the following procedures to diagnose the condition:
- Conducting laboratory tests by taking a blood sample.
- Subjecting the patient to some tests that increase the activity of the pituitary gland.
- The amounts of hormone secreted by blood are measured and determined according to the safety of their reaction.
- Diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency through measurements at levels of growth hormones 1.